Hill A G
Demography. 1975 Aug;12(3):537-48.
Kuwait has experienced a dramatic rise in national income since 1945, and its material standard of living is as high as that of any country in the world. The national population (Kuwaitis) is a stable and almost closed population comprising 45 percent of the total population of the state. The Kuwaitis, readily separable from the immigrant population, both de facto and de jure, have a very low level of mortality but retain their traditionally high level of fertility. It is suggested that this largely unaltered pattern of fertility is a function of the peculiar form of economic development to which Kuwait has been subjected and of the strongly pro-natalist pressures associated with Arabic Islam.
自1945年以来，科威特国民收入急剧增长，其物质生活水平与世界上任何国家一样高。全国人口（科威特人）是一个稳定且几乎封闭的群体，占该国总人口的45%。科威特人在事实上和法律上都很容易与移民人口区分开来，他们的死亡率很低，但仍保持着传统的高生育率。有人认为，这种基本未变的生育模式是科威特所经历的特殊经济发展形式以及与阿拉伯伊斯兰教相关的强烈鼓励生育压力的结果。
